Hi Recently I've been ripping my CD collection to FLAC images with CUE sheets, using EAC. Mostly this is a simple process, but occasionally I encounter a CD that's scratched or badly pressed, so that EAC encounters read errors or sync errors. The affected tracks can often be read successfully by polishing the CD, or simply by re-ripping numerous times, but this is a bit hit-and-miss, and takes a long time if I attempt to re-rip the entire CD many times. Incidentally, I've found that sticking the CD in the freezer for 10 minutes or so before re-ripping often does the trick.
What I've been looking for is a way to re-rip just the affected tracks, but still end up with a FLAC image of the entire CD. The following is my approach, but I can imagine there is a simpler way that others have found. Any advice would be gratefully received. My method also works for those awful CDs with videos included, which show up as a single 'data' track after the audio tracks in EAC, and which prevent a single FLAC image from being ripped. 1) Rip each audio track to individual WAV files in EAC. If troublesome tracks need several goes, just keep overwriting the failed tracks until a good copy is obtained. 2) 'Burn' the WAV files to a Nero image, using Nero's image recorder. Be sure to set the gaps between tracks to 0 seconds. 3) Use Nero ImageDrive to mount the image as a CD 4) Use 'Easy CD DA Extractor' to 'rip' from this virtual CD to a single WAV file, by selecting the 'Single File Output' option. it doesn't matter now that 'Easy CD DA Extractor' can't detect errors as well as EAC - this CD is a virtual CD and will rip perfectly with any software that recognises the Nero image drive. 5) Convert the resulting WAV file to FLAC using the stand-alone DOS FLAC executable 6) Create a CUE sheet of the original CD using EAC If anyone has a quicker method to combine individual WAV files into a single WAV file that matches the CUE sheet, I'd love to hear it. Chris -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34043 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
